Al-Monitor's top articles of 2024 delivered exclusive reporting on the Middle East's tumultuous year. From Assad's fall in ...

Russia ‘drafts 180,000 convicts’ as Zelensky says decisive Trump can stop Putin - Trump ‘capable of stopping Putin or, to put it more fairly, help us stop Putin’, says Zelensky ...

Holding new elections in Syria could take up to four years, rebel leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has said in a broadcast interview.

Sharaa, the leader of the rebels who ousted the Bashar al-Assad regime, also plans to dissolve the group that took control of ...

Ahmed al-Sharaa expressed his hope that incoming US President Donald Trump will lift the sanctions on Syria, and that Russia ...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, died on Sunday (Dec 29) at the age of 100, his non-profit foundation announced. According to the Crater Center, he died "peacefully" at his home ...

Sharaa, Syria’s de facto leader, envisions a four-year timeline for elections and a three-year plan to draft a new constitution, signalling a transformative phase for the war-torn nation. As Syria ...

With a Russian apologist preparing to return to the White House, Keir Giles plots out how he believes Putin will use the new American president, Ukraine’s defenselessness, and the chill of life ...

In a wide-ranging interview, the political economist Helen Thompson discusses how the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria has ...

Former President Jimmy Carter’s state funeral will be held on Jan. 9 at the Washington National Cathedral. It’ll feature a ...

In the weeks since Bashar al-Assad was ousted as Syrian leader, Russia has launched multiple flights to an airbase in the ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdish-held areas in northeast Syria cannot live without other parts of the country, therefore ...